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It's halftime.

I have had the same trailer attached to the truck I use at work this entire week. This is extraordinary in that the usual process is that you drop and detach the trailer at the hub dock at the end of the day, and park your untethered tractor elsewhere on the facility. It's a small facility and space is at a premium in the dock door area, so it's rare to see any tractors parked back there. The reason that my truck has stayed attached is mainly because of what happened on the first day of the work week. I roll out and just as I'm hitting the nearby expressway, a passenger yells out to me that my landing gear is down - these are the two legs which support the trailer on its own. I happened to have a companion with me that day and neither he nor I heard or felt any unusual scraping or resistance from the road until we got to that point, so it seemed reasonable to assume that a bump on the road to that point is what caused it to fall out. Also, it was only one leg which fell, and it was the passenger side, so despite my cranking the gear up as normal, I didn't see anything unusual before leaving. Regardless, after calling maintenance and confirming that the trailer was reported as having its gear stripped and shouldn't have been eligible for use, we make arrangements to turn around and get an emergency quick fix at the nearby truck rental facility. An hour passes and their solution is to chain the fallen leg upright to the frame, which means that I wouldn't be able to drop it as normal when I was done. I finish the day, leave, and come back to find my truck still attached the next day. On this night, it happens to be raining as I'm on the Interstate for a stretch of road which has no lights overhead; I run over something and it makes the tractor bounce harder than usual with a different kind of noise. I reach the next destination and as I pull backwards to enter the facility I see a wad of shredded rubber on the pavement. I complete the back in and immediately jump out to confirm that the shredded tire wasn't formerly mine. I also notice that whatever I did run over managed to snag onto the power cable which runs from the tractor to the outlet for the liftgate on the trailer. The plate and socket was completely bent out of the frame and unusable, and the power cord itself was wrapped into a bolt coupling on the DEF tank nearby which resulted in the bolt puncturing a hole cleanly through the cable. I now had no liftgate power supply, and I had a few pieces left on the trailer which required the gate to be used. The gate can operate on stored battery power for a few cycles without being connected, so I do this through the remainder of the day. I call maintenance and inform them that they hadn't disconnected the trailer yet, and mentioned this new problem. That was three days ago, and the trailer has remained on my tractor for the remainder of the week, until and including today. I had a large drive shaft of some kind to deliver, as well as an engine to another location, and I left both at the dock because I had no way to safely get them to the ground upon arrival. Between this, the long days, and the continued (albeit rare) instances where customers still complain about my performance compared to previous drivers, I'm about at wits end with this job. I'm not in a crisis mode yet, though. The field is competitive, I have earned my stripes here, and that was the basic intent of me signing on with them immediately regardless. Now that I have the experience and an established pay rate, I can use both of those factors to let me have some kind of freedom in choosing where I may go next, and what I am paid to do so. In order to do all of this properly, however, I will need to get the rest of my CDL certifications.

I use an air mattress to sleep on the futon in the basement bedroom during weekdays, and in this week it developed an air leak problem which I didn't want to deal with anymore, so we purchased a new mattress. It is more than twice the height of the old mattress, and might possibly be firmer when fully inflated. I approve.

It turns out that song sessions were overall really good this week, and I have no idea what make my playing so much better in this period than previous weeks. Thursday's streak of increases was amazing. Maybe my key to continuing having days like this is to never play IIDX in the arcade anymore.


Lunar Beat. Extra Mode. Double play. "@" denotes Random chart modifier. All songs are of highest difficulty type unless specified.
First line, by column; song title, EX score percentage and letter grade rank, EX score value and pass/fail, judgment readout (just great, great, good, bad poor), highest combo reached, note count of chart under Extra Mode, original note count of chart, percentage increase of Extra Mode notes over original note count, timestamp.
Second line, by column; pass count / play count, EX score percentage difference from record, EX score value difference from record, judgment readout difference from record (if current play is new record), highest combo reached difference from record (if current play is new record), timestamp of old record (if current play is new record).

Code:

			EX% & Rank	EX.p/f	pg.gr.gd.bd.pr		combo	nc	onc	%+nc 	date
silver flower @		74.82 A		1269.P	499.271.54.6.40		0211	0848			2015-06-22T02:26:01:871Z
4/4			01.29-		0022-

girls thorn @		29.22 E		2258.F	746.766.1003.480.1790	0057	3863	2645	046.04	2015-06-22T02:30:06:890Z
0/2			02.81+		0217+	115+13-50-2+41-		0018+				2014-06-23T00:09:01:150Z

noir noir @		46.95 C		2222.F	816.590.521.185.600	0123	2366	1021	131.73	2015-06-22T02:33:51:178Z
0/6			01.67+		0079+	66+53-30+33-29-		0046+				2014-01-02T01:45:08:739Z

destiny @		72.81 A		1315.P	500.315.64.6.27		0323	0903			2015-06-22T02:37:41:458Z
10/11			02.43-		0044-

タシカナモノ @		71.26 A		1977.F	792.393.124.17.118	0100	1387			2015-06-22T02:40:50:554Z
0/10			00.82-		0023-

burn'ing @		36.48 D		1595.F	547.501.521.185.866	0098	2186			2015-06-22T02:43:52:955Z
0/15			02.56-		0112-

take my life @		44.09 D		1918.F	689.540.495.186.690	0078	2175			2015-06-22T02:49:17:778Z
0/8			01.95-		0085-

going to the future @	41.65 D		1653.F	588.477.470.191.596	0049	1984	0954	107.96	2015-06-22T02:57:04:218Z
0/1

tizona del cid @	69.92 A		1625.P	615.395.129.4.31	0208	1162			2015-06-22T03:01:12:866Z
10/10			02.19-		0051-

yco dead or alive B14 @	55.66 B		1622.F	575.472.276.31.182	0163	1457			2015-06-22T03:07:08:146Z
0/9			00.00·		0000·

erasermotor phantom @	43.27 D		2183.F	756.671.604.151.706	0056	2525			2015-06-22T19:38:40:310Z
0/7			00.75-		0038-

radius @		43.20 D		1538.F	527.484.448.137.440	0109	1780			2015-06-22T19:45:58:509Z
0/14			05.95-		0212-

fk assault @		31.27 E		1775.F	595.585.772.341.1266	0049	2838			2015-06-22T19:49:07:365Z
0/5			00.33-		0019-

plan 8 @		34.73 D		1656.F	562.532.546.201.1081	0048	2384			2015-06-22T19:53:55:933Z
0/7			02.47-		0118-

.59 A14 @		75.12 A		0879.P	348.183.49.1.12		0385	0585	0585	0	2015-06-22T19:58:00:621Z
5/5			02.32+		0026+	28+30-1-1+6+		0007-				2014-08-26T20:35:39:606Z

saturn @		45.66 C		1842.F	645.0552.481.111.551	0075	2017			2015-06-22T20:00:46:581Z
0/11			03.02-		0122-

low @			57.93 B		1665.F	599.467.262.29.181	0101	1437	0957	052.45	2015-06-25T20:16:33:083Z
0/11			02.30+		0066+	28+10+18-11-10+		0026-				2015-01-29T19:09:06:678Z

to my star @		65.28 B		1918.F	742.434.168.45.183	0163	1469	1019	044.16	2015-06-25T20:19:17:242Z
0/12			00.21+		0006+	13+20-5+7-1+		0041-				2013-09-14T00:52:37:395Z

message @		65.09 B		1712.F	635.442.139.22.139	0110	1315	0957	037.40	2015-06-25T20:22:15:825Z
0/3			03.54+		0093+	28+37+46-12-4-		0007-				2014-09-09T19:29:50:956Z

milly barll @		24.43 E		1789.F	529.731.1093.434.1806	0031	3661	2353	055.58	2015-06-25T20:25:24:994Z
0/2			01.12+		0082+	10-102+30-19+22+	0015+				2014-06-07T00:37:45:671Z

beginning of life @	86.08 AA	0198.P	85.28.2.0.0		0115	0115	0115	0	2015-06-25T20:27:38:218Z
3/3			05.22+		0012+	10+8-2-0·0·		0000·				2014-11-01T19:03:07:477Z

twelfth style @		46.18 C		1780.F	637.506.407.161.589	0133	1927	1070	080.09	2015-06-25T20:30:52:258Z
0/19			01.19+		0046+	10+26+66-11+15-		0014-				2014-01-26T21:06:45:994Z

acque minerali @	58.22 B		1855.F	693.469.203.86.363	0175	1593	0685	132.55	2015-06-25T20:33:40:985Z
0/12			00.22+		0007+	19-45+34-13+24+		0051+				2012-06-18T01:18:21:327Z

indication @		36.41 D		1833.F	620.593.608.272.1004	0144	2517	1642	053.28	2015-06-25T20:36:54:303Z
0/1

secrets A14 @		36.46 D		1907.F	642.623.631.285.1036	0054	2615			2015-06-25T20:40:27:714Z
0/7			00.72-		0038-

thunder house nation @	46.00 C		1842.F	654.534.457.93.494	0161	2002			2015-06-26T20:07:57:748Z
0/10			00.12-		0005-

sie werden zauberin @	74.53 A		1993.F	803.387.85.13.106	0118	1337			2015-06-26T20:11:04:876Z
0/4			03.73-		0100-

votum stellarum @	65.89 B		1314.P	479.356.146.2.30	0188	0997			2015-06-26T20:14:00:036Z
9/9			03.30-		0066-

2 tribe 4 k @		56.66 B		1845.F	675.495.307.57.249	0166	1628			2015-06-26T20:16:47:595Z
0/11			04.91-		0160-

lightstep @		58.31 B		1922.F	715.492.286.46.220	0111	1648			2015-06-26T20:20:39:820Z
0/4			02.15-		0071-

ecstacy @		41.30 D		2165.F	743.679.360.219.808	0134	2621			2015-06-26T20:29:24:979Z
0/6			03.58-		0188-

snow storm @		57.32 B		2027.F	745.537.367.33.166	0090	1768			2015-06-27T23:18:35:364Z
0/11			03.73-		0132-

attack the music A14 @	70.22 A		0566.P	212.142.44.0.9		0271	0403			2015-06-27T23:20:35:973Z
6/8			02.85-		0023-

zirkfied @		38.80 D		1678.F	575.528.534.208.826	0088	2162			2015-06-27T23:26:51:411Z
0/6			01.85-		0080-

point graphy 		45.54 C		2313.F	848.617.583.138.649	0267	2539	1891	034.26	2015-06-27T23:33:04:021Z
0/2			06.67+		0339+	148+43+8-37-197-	0183+				2014-05-25T01:49:29:381Z

shining polaris korsk @	60.98 B		2015.P	751.513.261.42.232	0136	1652	0950	073.89	2015-06-27T23:38:15:134Z
11/13			00.27+		0009+	4-17+17-1+15+		0152-				2014-03-03T00:22:43:193Z

star field @		76.45 A		1555.F	628.299.65.6.40		0526	1017	0793	028.24	2015-06-27T23:45:02:725Z
0/5			02.61+		0022+	40+58-6-2+8-		0231+				2012-03-31T00:36:46:754Z

being torn the sky @	76.97 A		1504.P	596.312.50.3.27		0249	0977			2015-06-27T23:48:15:037Z
6/6			00.61-		0012-

sinae hansu @		54.54 C		2123.F	759.605.358.45.333	0058	1946	1189	063.66	2015-06-27T23:51:28:725Z
0/3			00.02+		0001+	11-23+22-1+44+		0002+				2014-03-23T00:38:52:164Z

lights @		69.75 A		1462.P	557.348.111.4.44	0162	1048			2015-06-27T23:56:53:924Z
9/9			01.19-		0025-